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Should I invest time learning Microsoft's new F# language? I am mainly a C# .NET developer and I wonder if learning F# will be of any help in developing today's typical applications.
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F# is a fantastic language that allows to do much with little coding - efficiency for the win! Functional programming gets more and more attention nowadays, so it's worth discovering languages that were created with this paradigm in mind.
However, functional programming languages are not highly popular. Most programmers never learn any functional programming languages, choosing instead to learn one of C#, Java, C++, Javascript and stick with it indefinitely. For that reason, F# is stuck in a position of being the number 3 .
In short, F# is an incredibly inconsistent language and you can't truly understand it without digging into the code it produces. Show activity on this post. How difficult is it to learn F# for experienced C# 3.0 developers, Really easy.
F# is a fully supported language in Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider. Plug-ins supporting F# exist for many widely used editors including Visual Studio Code, Vim, and Emacs.
F# is a perfectly good place to start learning functional languages. If you're worried that F# knowledge won't apply to other functional languages, you shouldn't. F# is a member of the ML family of languages. Microsoft just tweaked it a bit so that it plays well with .NET.
Luca Bolognese gave an amazing presentation on F# at PDC 2008. I would strongly recommend you watch it and decide for yourself whether F# is worth learning.
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It's worthwhile to take a look at programming languages that make you think differently, and if you're a C# developer, F# is probably the functional programming language you'd find most accessible.
Even if you decide that you don't want to develop applications in F#, the experience of using F# could change the way you write C#.
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